Age Limits For Your Board

I have talked before
about term limits, which is the amount of time that a board member is allowed
to serve on a board. The usual best practice is three terms of three years
each. Many boards have term limits. What about age limits?

Presumably each group
has a default minimum age limit of 18 as a person younger than 18 cannot represent
themselves. The Canada Business Corporation Act sets 18 as their minimum
limit. In order to be President of the
United States you have to be older than 35 when you file the papers to run for
office and clearly there is no upper limit to how old you can be and still be
President. There are organizations who have a mandatory retirement age. I
personally don’t agree with that. However, in the absence of an upper age limit
how does a group put in place a control over the performance of their board members?

Which is easier to
explain– you have to leave the board because you are 80 or you have to leave
the board because we think you are losing it? Does your group have age limits?
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